"If a ghost is seen, what is it interests me less than than what sees it?" Thus Algernon Blackwood describes his fascination with human beings' ability to sense invisible powers and stirrings in the universe, a fascination he developed most famously in his stories about mystical, ineffable encounters with nature. This collection, selected by renowned scholar of the supernatural, E. F. Bleiler, is an excellent sample of Blackwood's work, including 12 of his best ghost stories and a crime story as well. Blackwood is acknowledged today as the author who made the ghost story into a respectable literary form.
El éxito de John Silence, el personaje más misterioso de la ficción moderna, según eslogan publicitario de la época, se debe en buena medida a la habilidad de Blackwood para combinar y dosificar una trama de suspense detectivesco con elementos de horror sobrenatural que convierten a su personaje en el patron de los cazafantasmas modernos.
Welcome to the casebook of Dr John Silence Physician Extraordinary After a long and severe training five years he was gone from the face of the earth travelling who knows where Silence returned to England as the greatest occult detective of the age When he takes up an investigation when he comes to the aid of some poor frightened soul you can be sure it will lead to the most strange and terrifying of circumstances from pagan magic in remote France to battles with ancient Egyptian fire spirits and from geometry defying alternate dimensions to the most macabre of haunted houses Some of the first works written by Algernon Blackwood one of the twentieth century s greatest ghost story writers these John Silence tales are a visionary blend of horror fantasy and science fiction and remain today as some of pinnacle achievements of Weird Fiction
A British traveller in France stops in a remote French hill town with some very unusual inhabitants and soon finds himself unable to leave; a scholar staying in a lodging house feels himself observed by a malevolent presence; two friends on a canoeing trip spend a night on a lonely willow-covered island in the middle of the Danube, haunted by the strange trees and sinister shapes in the water...Algernon Blackwood is one of Britains greatest ever proponents of weird and supernatural stories. This collection contains four of his most unnervingly curious tales: Ancient Sorceries, The Listener, The Sea Fit and The Willows.
These are stories steeped in the majesty and mystery of nature. You dont read them - you fall into them, as into a dream. Lulled into a false sense of security, you discover you are no longer within comfortable boundaries. Your eyes have been opened to a larger world. You are about to embark on an incredible adventure...
